my sister gave me the knitting book "Teach yourself to Knit by Eva Rosen. And I have learned from it, but the winter hat pattern is not right... I did as instructed, the cast on stitch amount was 40 stitches, this was a pattern for an adult hat, 40 stitches didnt fit on my head. I just modified it and did 90 stitches, so why would she put it as casting on 40 stitches for an adult hat??

worsted weight 2 oz for the main color, and 1 1/2 oz for the others, you cast on 40 stitches and it says do stockinette stitch (but the picture shows ribbing) for 8 rows main color then 4 rows color A 6 rows color B then back to 4 rows color A, and do the color stripe sequence three times, ( i calculated you end up with 66 rows) but when I did it it was too small, I just noticed the instructions call for you to use two strands of yarn each color, Would that make a differnce? My main question is 40 cast on stitches with no increases is way too small for an adult head???

Yes, 2 strands of worsted weight yarn will equal a heavy bulky weight That's what will allow 40 sts to be large enough because that should end up as 2 sts per inch or so. Make sure you're using the right needle size too.

Yes, 2 strands of worsted weight yarn will equal a heavy bulky weight That's what will allow 40 sts to be large enough because that should end up as 2 sts per inch or so. Make sure you're using the right needle size too.

ok i will try that, after posting that, I rered that too about having to use two strands, and felt like a food not having read that before...( duh) thanks,

The pattern says to use size 17 needles. Is that the size you're using???

knitcindy

No actualy it was 13 then come to find out those were the ones for the scarf. Im such a knitters dolt somtimes...But I had already started doing the hat a different way and think this is going to work..I am using #9 needles and casted on 90 stitches, and the circumfrence works, Im just trying to figure out the depth of the hat. Im not doing the color pattern just in Blue and so far Im just about the total for the pattern and it still seems to shallow ..Ill just keep going, and checking Thanks guys